Indeed, your heroes never communicate their feelings that the reader knows. Onirik : It seems that you like to push the limits somehow static of the romance genre. Love and sex are very basic needs, and I just put them up front. Other people who started out writing when I did have moved on to straight thrillers, but for me the interaction between the man and the woman is what’s most exiting. Onirik : The quality of Face to face between the two heroes is undoubtedly what readers of your books (me included) appreciate enormously : How do you manage to create such a tension in these “closed doors”Īnne Stuart : The intensity of the relationship is what drives the book for me. As I demonstrated, my French is absolutely lousy, but I chatter on without embarrassment. I also started at a private school where we learned French in nursery school and kindergarten (in most US schools you don’t start learning another language until third grade). I haven’t spent much time in France, but when I was young I was madly in love with Yves Montand and Charles Aznavour and Jean Paul Belmondo and Alain Delon and Jacques Dutronc, so I immersed myself in French movies and music at a very impressionable age. It’s kind of obvious that you know our country well, do you ?Īnne Stuart : I’m good at faking it. Onirik : Many of your novels take place in France with half French heroes (black Ice or seen and not heard for example) but you skip the clichés that we often see in so many authors. Their circumstances are also different, so I don’t have a problem with things sounding similar.

They’re all potentially deadly, but they come from different backgrounds, there are different reasons for the way they are, and of course they fall in love with very different women. Onirik : You’ve already written 3 books in the “Ice” serie how do you manage to make each novel so different but with such close screens to the others ?Īnne Stuart : Not quite sure what you mean by close screens to each other? I make the novels different because the characters are very different.

Ice Blue by Anne Stuart